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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Chris Hilliard
wiley   +1 more source

Italian Abolitionism in Late and Post Ottoman Libya (1890 – 1929) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper focuses on Italian abolitionism in Libya framing the actions of consular offices, Ottoman administration, colonial authority, Catholic missions and antislavery committees in a trans-imperial perspective.
Gabriele Montalbano
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The Underground Railroad: main aspects of operation

open access: yesВестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета
The relevance of the research topic. Wherever slavery existed, people attempted to escape, and American history is no exception. Sometimes such efforts took on organized and institutionalized forms, a notable example of which is the so-called Underground
S. T. Khapchaev
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Abolitionism - the first popular civil rights movement in great Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The article is devoted to abolitionism in Great Britain at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century - a movement which aimed to put an end to the infamous slave trade and, eventually, to slavery in general in the country that played a ...
Атанасов, П. С.   +1 more
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment

open access: yesJournal of Modern Philosophy
In the increasingly polemical abolitionist and pro-slavery literature of the eighteenth century, John Locke’s thought was often tokenized. Both sides appealed to him in their respective defenses.
Brian Smith
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Cultures of abolitionism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The abolition movement did not exist only in the corridors of power. As one of the first mass political movements it gave rise to – and was arguably born of – a wealth of cultural productions including poems, novels, plays, paintings, cartoons ...
Carey, Brycchan
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